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单位

dān wèi

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 單位 Measure word 个

单位 (dān wèi) means "unit (of measure); one's work organization". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 单位 means

1. unit (of measure)
2. unit (group of people as a whole)
3. work unit (place of employment, esp. in the PRC prior to economic reform)

The characters in 单位

• 单dānbill; list; form
• 位wèiposition; location; place

Example sentences

• 短语是句法单位。
  duǎnyǔ shì jù fǎ dānwèi .
  Phrases are syntactical units.
• 米以公斤为单位来出售。
  Mǐ yǐ gōngjīn wèi dānwèi lái chūshòu.
  Rice is sold by the kilogram.
• 模为1的向量是单位向量。
  Mó wèi 1 de xiàngliàng shì dānwèixiàngliàng.
  A vector is a unit vector if its norm is 1.
• 在我的单位，我是最年轻的。
  I'm the youngest in my department.
• 你为什么会出现在我工作单位？
  Nǐ wèishénme huì chūxiàn zài wǒ gōngzuòdānwèi?
  Why would you appear in my unit?
• 鱼在这里是以磅为单位来出售。
  Yú zài zhèlǐ shì yǐ bàng wèi dānwèi lái chūshòu.
  Fish is sold by the pound here.

Words starting with 单位

• 单位根dān wèi gēn(math) root of unity
• 单位向量dān wèi xiàng liàng(math) unit vector
• 单位切向量dān wèi qiē xiàng liàng(math) unit tangent vector
• 单位元dān wèi yuánidentity element (math.)
• 单位犯罪dān wèi fàn zuìcrime committed by an organization
• 单位信托dān wèi xìn tuōunit trust (finance)

Words containing 单位

• 亚单位yà dān wèisubunit
• 事业单位shì yè dān wèipublic service institution (e.g. schools, hospitals); (Taiwan) business enterprise…
• 公制单位gōng zhì dān wèimetric units
• 国际单位guó jì dān wèiinternational unit
• 基本单位jī běn dān wèibasic unit; fundamental building block
• 天文单位tiān wén dān wèiastronomical unit (AU)
• 工作单位gōng zuò dān wèiwork unit
• 施工单位shī gōng dān wèiunit in charge of construction; builder
• 生产单位shēng chǎn dān wèiproduction unit
• 行政单位xíng zhèng dān wèiadministrative unit (e.g. province 省
• 重量单位zhòng liàng dān wèiunit of weight
• 长度单位cháng dù dān wèiunit of length
• 国际单位制guó jì dān wèi zhìInternational System of Units
• 所属单位suǒ shǔ dān wèiaffiliated unit; subsidiary
• 热量单位rè liàng dān wèithermal unit; unit of heat
• 体积单位tǐ jī dān wèiunit of volume
• 肽单位tài dān wèipeptide unit (on protein chain)
• 全国重点文物保护单位Quán guó Zhòng diǎn Wén wù Bǎo hù Dān wèiNational Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit

Where 单位 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Inclusion, Components & Structure (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read dān wèi correctly.
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